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About TREAT

TREAT (Targeted Retrofit Energy Analysis Tool) is an innovative software designed to provide support for weatherization programs, building performance contractors and energy auditors. It is a comprehensive energy analysis tool that allows weatherization programs to provide new sources of value to their customers, with increased program efficiency.

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TREAT's analysis tools allow Contractors and Home Energy Auditors to:

  • Obtain quick and accurate results
  • Calculate energy savings for individual improvements or assemble improvements in interactive packages
  • Create models quickly and easily with building component libraries
  • Select Improvements from Libraries
  • Aggregate improvements into packages
  • Automatically calculates payback and SIR

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has funded the TREAT software project as part of their Building Performance Market Enhancement Initiative. It integrates fuel bill analysis, weather data and building modeling information into a database environment. It allows energy efficiency programs to cost-effectively track the savings of buildings they "treat," relative to the savings that they predict for those buildings, and is designed to support the use of Total Quality Management techniques.

It is the first to integrate room-by-room heat loss analysis with a state-of-the-art hourly energy model (developed by the United States Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Lab, NREL). By combining these two tools, the ability of contractors to provide customers with "whole house" energy savings packages is increased. It is also approved by US DOE for use in Weatherization Assistance Programs.

TREAT addresses health and safety issues that impact the quality of life of customers and can therefore be significant sales motivators for contractors. TREAT software includes an extensive built-in library of building components for quick selection of existing and improved building components.

TREAT also allows users to calculate existing electrical energy consumption resulting from appliances and lighting and select replacements.  ENERGY STAR® lighting and appliances are highlighted in the component libraries.